SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS 2023 > OM THE ROAD TO THE STONES … RDF, NFA, CIRQUE DU BLEURGH, BRAINSNIFF, etc … April 17, 2023sidLeave a comment this June see’s the festival campaign celebrate a decade of music, organisation and subversion @ Stonehenge – with a legal ‘all dayer’ @...
THE DRUIDS have been going to Stonehenge to celebrate the Summer Solstice for a long time. Their ceremonies culminate when the sun, rises over the Hele Stone at around 5 am on the morning . For years their audience was scarcely more than the occasional hardy American tourist with a camera....
Stonehenge is an ancient prehistoric site which has been a place of worship and celebration at the time of Summer Solstice for thousands of years. This important site is seen by many as a sacred site – if you are planning to visit for summer solstice we ask that you please respect the s...
Stonehenge was constructed around 5,000 years ago, with stones forming different circles brought to the site at different times. The placement of stones allows for the sun to rise through a stone "window" during summer solstice. The ancient purpose of the altar stone - which lies flat at the...
In his book Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos, North showed by meticulous calculation how the alignment of Stonehenge was not, as was long supposed, to the Midsummer sunrise, but to its setting on the day of the Winter Solstice: in other words, to that very moment when the old ye...
“Although strongly associated with the summer solstice today, it is likely that Stonehenge was a place of winter, a shrine to the ancestors that was at its peak in the coldest season” There was once a circle of stones on the island of Ireland known as the Giants’ Dance. For millennia...
Stonehenge Summer Solstice Sunrise The Celts commemorated it with bonfires that supplemented the sun’s energy, Christians celebrated the feast of St John the Baptist towards the end of June and the Chinese commemorated the Summer Solstice with the festival of Li, the Goddess of light. Celebrator...